Slow-pathway ablation for atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia with no risk of atrioventricular block

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 407-412

  Giazitzoglou, Eleftherios ^a   Korovesis, Socrates ^a   Kokladi, Maria ^a   Venetsanakos, Ioannis ^a   Paxinos, George ^a   Katritsis, Demosthenes G ^a  

^a Athens Euroclinic ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrioventricular node; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENALINE;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR JUNCTION ARRHYTHMIA; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049351019     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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